In 1893 an International Congress on Education
was held in conjunction with the Chicago World’s
Fair (Lee & Bennett, 1985a). Because the National
Education Association (NEA) had 2 years earlier
recognized physical education as a curricular field,
a physical-education section of the congress was
organized. That enabled physical educators from
Europe and North America to meet for the first
time as specialists in a fully recognized school subject.
From that time on, the physical-education
profession began to view education rather than
medicine as its parent field.